Fw: Re: We need a better Internet in America

[Coleman Kane]

I'm sorry, but I'd like to know the "better" alternative to government
regulations that prohibit the marketing and sale of elixers such as the
following (ca. 1915):

http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/quackcures/standradiumsolution.htm

Sure, today we all are taught that radiation is bad today, and so we all
know it is. However, how much of this knowledge is due to government
regulation via the FDA, etc... and public standards of education? What
alternative to these institutions has a track record of providing
sufficient confidence in our consumables marketplace?

-- 
Coleman Kane


On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 14:23 -0500, Seth Cohn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > Libraries have been public in the US primarily since the late 1700s.
> > There is an ongoing debate as to which is the first.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_library
> 
> "The library in the New Hampshire town of Peterborough claims to be
> the first publicly-funded library; it opened in 1833."
> 
> There is a big difference between public and publicly _funded_.  Most
> of the libraries you cite as being 'public' in the 1700s were
> 'private' in most every sense you'd recognize today, despite being
> open to the 'public'
> 
> But this list isn't for debating library history.  My overall point
> was that looking toward governmental regulation of the net, even for
> 'good reasons', as with all 'governmental regulation' in general is a
> mistaken approach to whatever problems you might want to solve.  There
> are _always_ better answers.
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